school's out forever

friday afternoon was the doctoral hooding ceremony. it began with a parade (grant is looking up at the camera; his advisor is behind him waving):

hazel and lucy:

i made sure they looked up for the important bits, like the hooding of dr. adamson by dr. deconick:

we headed to the college of humanities reception and took many pictures. below is grant with dr. henze, a member of grant's dissertation committee, and sylvia, the department coordinator:

 with dr. mackie, another member of the committee:

 with matt, a student of grant's:

with dan and johnathan, fellow graduates:

and lots of family photos:

saturday was commencement and conferral of degrees. the weather was surprisingly nice with low humidity and a cool breeze, but we were sitting facing the sun:

amazingly, i was able to spot grant in the crowd of graduates:

and i nearly burst with pride. commencement was well done. the keynote speaker was helene gayle and her speech was very good:

dr. adamson & dr. trammell:

with their advisor:

 and more family pictures:

posing by the sculpture po-um (lyric) by mark di suvero:

and posing by the piece monumental barn owl by geoffrey dashwood:

finally, encapsulating the entire weekend, a piece by hazel r. a.: